i choose you // e.d

Good News

I stand up quickly as I hear the words come out of the doctors mouth.

"It's going away." I repeat in my head. I felt like passing out.

I smile at the doctor and quickly run out of the room. I run out into the parking lot, stopping to catch my breath.

I snatch my iPhone out of my hoodie pocket & quickly dial Ethan's number. He picks up right away.

"How did it go? Are you okay? What happened? What did they say?" Ethan basically yelled into the phone.

My voice cracked as I told him, "It's going away, E."

"I'm coming to pick you up. Stay there. I'll be there in 5." He quickly hangs up.

I smile to myself and sit down on the curb.

Five minutes, a white mustang pulls into the parking lot. I stand up and Ethan pulls over to me. He puts the car in park, steps out, and runs over to hug me. I soon notice that my shirt was wet from him crying.

I slowly back up and look at him. Tears roll down his face and he looks away.

"I'm okay, Ethan. I'm okay now." I tell him.

He looks back up at me and kisses my forehead. I smile to myself and tell him, "Let's go somewhere."

He nods and goes back around to his side and we get in the car.

"Where do you wanna go?" Ethan asked me as soon as we pulled out of the parking lot.

"Dairy Queen?" I suggested.

Ethan smiled & grabbed my hand that was laying in my lap.

Minutes later, we pulled into the resteraunt.

We got out of the car & walked in. I quickly told Ethan what I wanted , then went to the bathroom to call my mom. I realized I didn't tell her that Ethan came & got me.

I dialed her number & she picked up immediately.

"MaKena Grace Bradshaw!" my mom said into the phone. she didn't sound mad, just worried.

"I'm fine, mom. Ethan came & got me. Now we're at Dairy Queen." I told her, trying to make her calm down.

"Okay, just be careful." She said. She trusted Ethan. We've been best friends since we were babies.

"We will, mom. I'll be home later." I said & hung up.

I went out & found Ethan at a booth with our ice cream.

"you okay?" He asked me.

"Yeah. I called my mom to let her know where we were." I told him.

"Okay. So tell me how the doctors went." He said as he dug into his ice cream sundae.

"Okay, well they said that the cancer cells were going down. & honestly, that's all I really understood." I laughed at the end.

"Well I'm so happy about it." He smiled so big & held my hand.

His smile made my heart flutter, but I couldn't be getting feelings for him.

He's my best friend, not my boyfriend.

I can't love him.

I can't.

Or could i..?